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Artist's rendering of London architect David Chipperfield's proposed exterior "renovation" of the Munich House of Art. Basically, he simply removes the row of trees planted across the front, post-war, that obscure the distinctive column facade, and widens the street to facilitate a more expansive view.

By Carolyn Yeager

STAR ARCHITECT David Chipperfield’s plan to restore Munich’s Haus der Kunst to its original Nazi-era state has provoked blow-back amongst Jewish groups and the political left.

The 1937-era building sits at Prinzregentenstraße at the southern end of the English Garden and is scheduled to undergo the renovation work at the end of 2017. The Bavarian government has allocated €58 million to the project, with €20 millionchipped in from the Federal government (totaling $83.7 million). Bavarian Culture Minister Ludwig Spaenle approved the plan, which has surprised many by being essentially a restoration of the exterior and surrounding grounds to its original Nazi-era state.

Haus Der Kunst as it stands today in November 2014. You can see how close the trees are and how they totally block the view of the pillars when leafed out most of the year. The area in front discourages pedestrians; there's a one-way street and a grassy area, with lots of traffic and other signage cluttering things up.

Here's a picture I found taken in summer - viewed from the Prinz Carl Palais. What disrespect to this building! For more pictures, see here.

Chipperfield said he wants to "reveal the past of the building" by removing the line of trees planted postwar all along the front that effectively obstruct the view of the 22 prominent columns and wide staircase from a distance. Instead of the grassy area now in front, the one-way street will be widened to preserve an open space that sets off the view of the facade, and is also in keeping with the severe classic style of the design. In addition, Chipperfield plans to open the doors to the English Garden as a kind of terrace leading into the green space. According to Spaenle, the design offers the opportunity for a social discussion about the "historicity" of the house, it being "highly charged with history".

Originally called “House of German Art,” the museum was designed by Adolf Hitler's early favorite architect Paul Ludwig Troost in the style of monumental classicism. It is a huge rectangle, measuring 175 meters long and 50 meters wide. Troost died in 1934. The grand opening of the museum was a major event in 1937, with Hitler and all the big-wigs of the Third Reich attending the “people's art exhibit,” selected by a jury of Germans, not Jewish art “experts.”

House of German Art as it appeared in 1937, a gift from Adolf Hitler to the city of Munich where his political movement was founded and received its strongest support. With its strict classical lines, the building was a great early showpiece for the National-Socialist style of architecture.

Negative Reaction

Chipperfield's team uses the words "visibility and transparency” in explaining the plan. Chipperfield has even been quoted as saying the House of Art had been "punished" in the post-war period, but there was "no more threat" [coming] from him. This sounds fantastic to me, but, not surprisingly, there are more detractors than appreciators.

Veteran Jewish activist Charlotte Knobloch (pictured right) leads the pack. As president of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Israelite Cultural Community) in Munich, she announced "It would be a devastating signal to appreciate or glorify the old Nazi buildings." She added, “I consider this backward-looking design based on the history of Nazi terror as history-forgetting,”

Another critic trotted out is Magnus Brechtken, vice-director of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), which is known above all for its research in National-Socialist history. He admits to also being “disturbed” by the renovation concept, saying "This is not the appropriate form of dealing with the legacy of the NS dictatorship." He called National-Socialist architecture "racial ideology in stone" and said it required “commentary,” just as the scientific edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf published by his institute a year ago can only be read with commentary. To present the building like it appeared in 1937 “would be similar to Mein Kampf without comments.”

What they're really saying is they have to control the message.

There are others, but the most important voice had remained silent until asked to comment: Winfried Nerdinger, founding director of the NS- Munich, a documentaion center that deals with the "'history and consequences of the N-S regime and the future orientation." As a long-standing professor of architectural history, Nerdinger is considered a connoisseur of national socialism in the "capital of the movement". He was born in 1944, not insignificantly the son of Eugen Nerdinger who was active in the Marxist resistance against national socialism.

Upon request, Nerdinger commented: "The function of the House of German Art was to present German art for a racist, national community as an exemplary new construction of the Nazi state." [This function cannot be] "simply ignored and rejected by an alleged innocence of the stones." [The house was] "an architectural demonstration of the Nazi ideology and thus also part of thepreparation of the Holocaust."

So there you have it: This building paved the way for the Holocaust! National-Socialist ideology is criminalized – can be criminalized and can continue to be banned from consideration as normal German history – only because of the “Holocaust”, which itself is mostly war propaganda nurtured and magnified by the Soviet Union, continuing communist/globalist power structures, and World Jewry. The National-Socialist state has never been honestly demonstrated or documented to be bad enough/different enough from other states to remain the historical pariah it's been made to be. That is accomplished by attributing the “Holocaust” to the Nazis.

The “Holocaust” always pops up in the end as the zinger, the final shut-down when their political argument hasn't quite carried the day. Everything the Jews and world-changers want is justified by the “Holocaust”, ultimately, and by nothing else. So why do so many well-known pro-White nationalists, identitarians and anti-immigrationists still accept that disgusting lie of German barbarism between 1939 and 1945? More people should be asking that question of them.

Comments

it occurs to me that non-Jews can't live in Israel and criticize and meddle in the decisions of the Jewish government, parliament, etc. How would that go over? Probably by expulsion from the country. Yet Jews meddle in the affairs of every country they're in. They do it by pretending to be all these various nationalities -- in Germany they're Germans, in Hungary they're Hungarians, in France, they're French. But can a non-Jew be an Israeli? I don't think so.

Beside the jewish mumble about the Haus der Kunst in Munich and countless other occasions it finally "breaks my heart": a huge menorah in front of the Brandenburger Tor and the 2711 concrete holo monster close by. Two Jewish symbols confronting the German symbol of freedom. Jewry has conquered my fatherland. Today the situation in the "torso" named Germany is far worse and hopeless than during the Weimar period. There are too few Germans prepared to fight for their inheritance.

It's no surprise that these Jooz come out of their hole to "protest" anything that has the potential of revival of the National Socialist era. These Jooz are a form of germ warfare or a plague that spreads from country to country and wipes out everything in it's path. Until these non-semite Khazar scum are rendered totally ineffective nothing will change. And, let's face it, since all politicians a paid-off by these vermin no decent person has a chance. Remember: "We goyim are here to serve the Joo" we're "cattle" and nothing more. After all just look at the haughty mug on that Charlotte Knoblicker: that speaks volumes.

I don't think this is the right way to approach the problem. You say everything is hopeless and nothing can be done -- so why even make a comment? Because you like name-calling and whining and being 100% negative?

I'm going to remember your name and email address - I may not post anything more from you as I question whether you're genuine.

My comment was not meant to be negative rather I was just stating facts. Can you deny that the Jews have virtually taken over every facet of of our lives: they own all the mass media [both print and electronic], the run Hollywood, the porn industry, they control all the major banks throughout the world via the Bank of England and in the U.S. the Federal Reserve which, of course, lends money at interest to the U.S. Government which American taxpayers are obliged under penality of imprisionment to repay. Which of couse has raised the debt ceiling to over 20 trillion dollars which can never be repaid. If you believe that Britian and the U.S. who are responsible for the murder of millions of innocent civilians via these endless faux wars fighting "terrorism" on behalf of the rogue state of Israel is negative than we are definately on the wrong page.

If you can prove to me with facts of your own that I am incorrect in my assessment then kindly provide them. If you cannot refute my allegations and therefore still insist that my commentary is negative then by all means deny me my right of free speech. By doing so it will only prove that you will not abide any comments that disagree with your own zeitgeist.

First off, you have no "right of free speech" on my website, which I own and pay for to the tune of approximately $100 a month on average. You might notice at the top it says Carolyn Yeager Writings - Podcasts - Views. It doesn't say Free Speech Zone for all.

Second, this site has been up since 2010, I think, and I've never seen you here. I've been Jew-wise and National-Socialist since 2007, with plenty of content to back that up. So your little comment complaining about "jooz" was not giving anyone here any information they don't already have. If you think your comments are so valuable, you can start a free blog of your own, but you prefer to take advantage of other people's earned readership. This is what I think you are doing here.

I'm "nuts"? And you Ms. Yeager obviously have an over inflated sense of your own self-importance.

I wasn't interested in who owns your website, how much you pay per month for it or who already "knows" all this information. Besides, a website devoted to a chap who's been dead for 72 years isn't exactly what I call deep scholarship especially since you claim that everyone already know all of this. What is the facination, or, moreover, what is the motivation in such an exercise?

I received your newletter and I posted a comment; you didn't like it so you claim that I'm nuts. Your resorting to the use of disparaging remarks regarding my intellect does not speak well for you. It not only shows a lack of respect but also displays a very angry person toward anyone with whom you may disagree and simply dismiss them as being nuts. The use of pejorative terms is the last resort when all else fails.

It may be of some passing interest to know that people who are devoted to the Hitler legend tend to be rather disingenuous in their writings. And there's a whole host of them: Dennis Wise, Deanna Spingola just to name a couple. Why, because they and you leave out all the the material about this chap that's too uncomfortable to address. To wit: his order to have murdered all of those he deemed "inferior". Those with mental or physical disabilites. Yes, I have a copy of the actual document back dated to 1939. For someone who claims to be an expert surely you are aware of this. Do you have this posted on your website? Or, Hitler's ordering the murder of one of his cloest confidants in the beginning stages of his rise to power: Gegor Strasser over a conflict of interests. No, Hitler couldn't have him exciled, he had to have him murdered. And what about Ernst Rohm? Hiter murdered Rohm himself. No, Hitler couldn't have tossed him in a camp with the rest of the poofters he had to kill him. Do the visitor's to your website "already have" all this information as well?

Maybe it's just a case that you believe I'm incompetent to comment on these issues. Here's my bona fides for what they may be worth to you: Emeritus Professor of History, Cardiff University. I've studided and taught history for over 28 years and 20th Century history for more than 15 years from WWI through WWII. Being nearly 70 years-old I hopefully have gained a bit of knowledge to be able to speak to these issues. I don't ignore facts from any side of these two conflicts either from the Allied or German side. The Allies committed more atrosities than did the Germans: the fire bombing of German cites, Eisenhower's Rhine death camps. It's a fact of history that Hitler did a tremendous job of bring Germany out of its depression in a short period of time and no honest scholar will deny this. But it does no one any good service not to point out the black marks against him. The only thing it does is produce shoddy scholarhip and lead people astray.

Hello Carolyn. Here is the comment that I attempted to enter concerning your above excellent article. For some reason I could not post it. It's very good to have you back writing again.

-Raymond-

Another powerful article, especially the last paragraph, questioning certain pro-White nationalists who still fear to tangle with the Holocaust narrative. Hopefully, in 2017 some of them will gather up the courage to, at least, raise the validity of that dishonest narrative. There is certainly enough very convincing research and literature out there now that was not previously available to challenge that reigning narrative. The MSM, Hollywood, academia, and the unenlightened public won't despise them any less than they do presently. As you know, even the guardians of the Holocaust narrative have backed down greatly from the outrageous original figures of the deaths associated with the “Holocaust”.

Very nice and informative article, Carolyn. And I agree with you on the disservice that the trees do to that architectual edifice. Reminders of the past there certainly must be hidden or pushed to the side, of course.

The most entertaining reading, however, came from your exchange and exposure of the imposter!! That was CLASSIC, my dear! As I read it, I'm thinking, "If I am Carolyn, this is how I would reply to his remarks." And you did so well! Give a fish enough line and he'll hang himself - which this person did! And then you SET THE HOOK at just the right moment, and your reply brought such a laugh from me! "Ha Ha Hah, I was right" nailed this AH who should have known better than to tangle not only with a scholar but a scholar with a bit of Sherlock Holmes in her arsenal!!

May you enjoy good health and success in the New Year. BTW, my CD lacks one song for completion and hopefully the studio will call and we'll get that done withing a week or so. Then comes the production - and I'll happily send one to you when available.